While I am glad to see that the quality of singing artists seems to have immensely improved from participants around the world including the Philippines, it is sad to see that a recently concluded international popular singing contest seem to have been reduced to a specter of voting for nationalism. Such social signaling has dismayingly been ventilated all over social media.
Yet logic says that if the victor of such singing contest would be determined by such a manner of selection, instead of skills, then the winner would likely hail from the country that has MORE population, all things equal. And I guess that this has been the outcome. [Updated to add: the show's title itself and contestant eligibility rules limits participants to residents of the country where the show is held]
It’s even bleaker to see how political correctness has pervaded the local entertainment industry such that holier than thou groups seek out edicts or legislation through coercive government machinery to attempt to repress on the freedom of religion and of the freedom of speech-expression of the others. Yet such senseless protests over moralism also triggered exasperating traffics.
This just shows how politics has been dumbing down the public and how politics have turned away many people’s attention from productive activities towards unproductive and even confrontational groupthink fallacies or “us against them” mindset.
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